Last night we hosted the latest ‘Churches Together’ meeting and it was wonderful to have people from a variety of local churches in attendance. In order to help us get to know each other, we played a game at the start:
The game focussed on finding letters to spell out words which were all contained in Psalm 133. Mark took this Scripture about unity to remind us that God says it is good and pleasant when brothers dwell together in unity. It is good for us and it is good for God! Jesus’s prayer in John 17:20-21 is for unity, for the unity of the Godhead is the pattern for our unity. Where there is unity, God commands His blessing; it is like the anointing oil of Aaron running down his beard and body (we need God’s anointing on the whole body of Christ) and like the dew, which is like God’s blessing and provision on us in power. The challenge is for us to work together as different churches, appreciating that unity does not mean uniformity and that there is room for diversity within our working together!